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Defusing the childhood vocabulary explosion

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DOI: 10.1126/science.1144073
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Abstract

Toddlers express a burst of new words as a result of their parallel acquisition of words of varying complexity, not because they acquire a new cognitive skill.

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McMurray, B. (2007, August 3). Defusing the childhood vocabulary explosion. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1144073

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